Let's get ready for the Super Bowl with two powerful creatures literally fighting to the death because, why not?
A photo circulated on Reddit this weekend, showing a king cobra and reticulated python both dead after what had to be the most intense snake battle in history.
At some point during this incredibly dangerous fight, the python was bitten by the ultra-venomous king cobra. Yet, the reticulated python - the world's longest and heaviest snake - remained constricted around the king cobra and killed the cobra while too being dead.
Via livescience.com:
Cobras incapacitate their prey with venomous bites, injecting a neurotoxin co*cktail that paralyzes respiratory muscles - and they don't necessarily wait until their prey is dead before swallowing it, Burbrink told Live Science. The cobra's eagerness may have led to its downfall - perhaps it bit the python and then strayed a little too close while waiting for it to succumb, he suggested.
And the python didn't give up without a fight. Its powerful constriction appears to have trapped and killed the cobra, even as the python died from the cobra's venom.
That leaves just one question …
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